how much time do you spend every day debating with yourself whether you
should go and study or procrastinate a little longer well let me give you some
advice sometimes you have to ignore what you're feeling and just go through the
motions you might feel like watching TV you might feel like doing something you
might not feel like doing something and instead of not doing it just go ahead
and go through the motions get it done get out there and do what you're
supposed to do it's the problem most students have they negotiate with
procrastination and at first it's difficult to overcome but the more you
do it the more you make yourself study even when you don't feel like it
the easier it will become get up and go and study
we all know the students that complain about their grades they make excuses why
they couldn't achieve higher but because they're making excuses they blame
everyone else but themselves so they don't do anything about it they don't
fix anything they don't improve anything so they continue getting the same grades
if all you do is complain nothing's going to happen in your life be obsessed
over your future be consumed by the possibilities the super-successful don't
stop when they hit their targets they simply reset and go again that dream is
not going to just sit there and wait for you to come and get it you've got to
chase it you've got to chase it like a man possessed you've got to go and get
it so what are you doing about it you've got to take action with your studying
find a solution to your problem don't be the problem for every action
there is an equal and opposite reaction if you increase your studying by 50%
your grades are also likely to increase and if they don't
then find out why as Owen Cook puts it success is like a quiet daily set of
tasks real real small it's like that quiet walk to the library that empty
24/7 library late at night over and over and over or as I sit there studying
other great people and I compare their actions with my own actions over and
over and over or as I sit doing 30 minutes of meditation a day over and
over and over making the choice to eat foods that enhance my brain
neurotransmitters over and over and over it's a very quiet process where you're
doing these simple little tasks but finding love in those simple little
tasks it's not the big thing where you do this one thing and something big
happens being able to make a success out of your life it's not purely down to
luck you have more control over it than you think you can decide to be
successful you can decide to have the fast cars and the big house and it
starts right here with your studying not because getting good grades is going to
bring you success in the future it's about the work ethic and the
attitude you have towards your studying that will transfer to your work after
you graduate it's about believing that you can achieve something and doing
whatever it takes to achieve it it's about fine-tuning the skills you have to
zero in on your goals the skills that you are improving while you're studying
work ethic time management reading critical thinking problem solving
decision making focus reasoning persuasion organization overcoming
obstacles and self motivation these are all skills that all great students have
improved and refined over years of efficient and effective studying and
it's these students that have made a decision that when the world is saying
that's impossible you're not capable your dreams will stay as dreams they
have that lone voice that goes no you know what it is possible just watch me
they have gone through this process of growth and they have pushed and pushed
through all the obstacles that were thrown at them it's important that you
don't think of your studying as though it's all about passing your exams and
getting a piece of paper at the end of it all so you can get a good job because
it's so much more than that and it's the great students that understand this it's
not about your exams it's about the process and the journey you go on and
the skills you refine over the years it's about when you don't feel like
studying but you continue to push through and study anyway it's doing the
things that you need to do that you know you need to do when you don't feel like
doing it because the reality is is that most people can study when they're
feeling good most people can study when they have no distractions when they're
in a quiet environment when there's pressure put on them as a deadline is
approaching but just being able to study on the highs isn't good enough you have
to be able to study all the time so learning how to refocus your mind on the
lows and knowing the lows are going to end is a huge skill the process is just
as important as the actual prize because the process is going to make you the
deeper the process the greater the reward just remember the prize is going
to be huge stop making excuses and get it done there's nobody in this world
that's going to get you what you want you're going out to go out there and get
what you want by studying hard being talented is not good enough you've got
to study hard and you've got to work hard stop waiting for somebody to come
in there and make your life perfect make your life great you got to do it you've
got to make the change in your life that you want to happen you cannot depend on
anybody the only person I'm ever going to rely
on this world is myself because I know that's the one thing I can control my
attitude and my mentality stop doing what you're doing every single day
unless you're dedicated to being great it's so sad to see so many young people
give up on the life they want to live just because they're scared of failure
most people fear failure so much that they don't even try
therefore they fail just by default achieving incredible grades will never
be easy but the only way you can guarantee to get poor grades is to not
even try in the first place don't fear putting yourself out there
there's too much pressure to fit in fit in with friends fit in with society too
afraid to dream about what you are capable of and going out there and
grabbing life by the horns believe in yourself
if you can dream it then you can be it if you believe it then you can achieve
it and it might not happen straightaway it might take you longer than you expect
an eighth grade student doesn't transition to an A grade student
overnight but if you're committed and maintain belief that in the end you will
achieve the results you are chasing then there's absolutely nothing getting in
your way it is within you you just gotta find it
so when your alarm clock goes off you have a decision to make and it takes
discipline to do this to get up and to make every single minute of your day
count
and you got to do this every day no matter what it takes if you really want
it that bad you better get used to being uncomfortable
what you concentrate on is what you get you've got to concentrate if you
concentrate you'll get the grades that you want if you concentrate on improving
your work ethic every day an incredible work ethic is what you'll get if you
concentrate on success every day success is what you'll get it's not a difficult
concept to understand if you want to do something in your life whatever it is
it's gonna take concentration don't stop obstacles challenges distractions keep
moving forward the feeling of getting the same mediocre grades every exam
every report every assignment the feeling of being tired of getting beaten
up by procrastination the feeling of anxiety and stress every time a deadline
approaches it's the tiredness that will propel you to have the motivation to
change the desire to get off the ground and stand up and stop eating dirt the
battleground is in your mind that's where the war is it's in your head
that's where the enemy fights that's where procrastination and
temptations lie as soon as you wake up the battle begins and it continues
throughout the day through temptations and seductions the battle continues and
your friends see you studying and studying they see you studying all day
and you make it look so easy but they have no idea of the gunfire going off in
your head because the real battlefield is in your mind it's never the situation
that you find yourself in it's always in your head this is your moment this is
your year of transformation complete rethinking re-examining rescheduling
re-evaluating this is the battlefield it's not exams it's not reports it's not
enemies it's not teachers it's not parents that's not the battlefield
stop wasting your time focusing on these things and look within you it is
something that is ingrained in every successful person to look at the
external problems around you and improve and fix yourself to be able to overcome
those problems the ability to push through difficult times the more you
overcome today the easier you will overcome obstacles tomorrow and once you
build up that momentum of improving your productivity it becomes a whole lot
easier and it's funny how it works the more you study the more you prepare for
your exams the easier your exams will be the easier University will be the easier
it will be to get a good internship or graduate job after you graduate it's
really very simple the more effort you put into developing yourself and
improving your studying the easier your life will be respect the struggle of
your journey because it's the struggle that will build you to become stronger
but be persistent keep working on it's going to be hard but that is an
incredible thing because you're going to figure it out you will pull through you
have enough time you have enough resources you have
enough commitment you will find a way to smash your exams you will figure things
out when tomorrow comes you might not know what steps to take but believe in
yourself I like how Andi for Silla pudding he
said have you done what you said you were gonna do on January 1st last year
did you stick to your new year's resolutions or did you just talk about
doing them did you just tell yourself that you were going to do it doing
anything successful doing anything importing is going to take discipline
there's always gonna be a reason to wait there's always gonna be a busy schedule
there's always gonna be something unexpected that happens it's always
going to be that way you have to work through it you have to prioritize your
studying and make it more important than everything else going on in your life
but a lot of you don't want it enough it's easy to fall into loving the idea
of something and it's hard to fall into the habits of action to actually achieve
the grades you're aiming for it's not about after the vacation or after the
film or after the YouTube video it's about right now people who succeed
stick to the plan regardless when you tell yourself you're going to study for
hours tonight for your exam next week you need to do it you are all curious
about what the secret is why certain people succeed when you don't succeed
well I'm gonna tell you why successful people while you're whining
and crying about how things are hard and why things
aren't fair guess what they're doing they're doing the studying you have to
commit to becoming better you have to commit to being a person of action you
have to commit to being someone who doesn't just talk but follows through
become someone who does instead of someone who just talks if you really
want it it's yours to take no one gives it to you or takes it away it's yours if
you want it it's a marathon not a sprint there's no fast fix to achieving
extraordinary grades there'll be days you'll be tired even exhausted but you
continue regardless because you don't judge it on the daily you judge it in
the long frame you keep your eyes on graduation you know there's going to be
ups and downs but you know that it's all going to be worth it you know that when
you start getting results it's going to be worth it you look in the mirror and
you'll say yeah I did this you feel this overwhelming feeling fear over working
in a crowd you're overworking everybody around you you're studying more than
them you became something you became somebody and once you get there that's
when you know you've done enough but don't talk about practice what you
preach and just do it it won't happen overnight it's gonna take months and
months of work just don't quit you keep fighting you keep fighting no matter
what because trust me on graduation day you'll look back over the last few years
and you'll realize it was worth it you